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Game Over - Nokia's nGage Meets the End of the Line


 
 
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Old 11-29-2005, 05:30 PM
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Default Game Over - Nokia's nGage Meets the End of the Line
http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/detail.php?id=177

"Nokia has announced that they will not be developing updated versions of the N-Gage. This funky cell phone/portable gaming machine was released in October 2003 after a massive marketing campaign to promote the N-Gage as the "new" and "extreme" cell phone that is also a gaming machine. Antti Vasara, Nokia�s vice president for corporate strategy admits, " N-Gage is still being sold but it was not a success in the sense of developing a new category. We learned that people want to play games an all devices. As such we are integrating the gaming software into Series 60 phones."

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Mobile phone gaming has just taken a turn for the worst, or has it? Did the nGage fail because it was a poorly designed gaming device/phone? Or did it fail because people want their phones to be phones first, and gaming devices second - or third/fourth/fifth? You decide.
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